Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi
My own 1000 square meters, 2006, 13’37’’
An Iranian woman who has lived in the Netherlands for 17 years dreams of her own piece of land in her native country. Together with her parents, she looks for a suitable location in Iran and finds a parcel of rocky, dry desert land. In her mind, she sees a green oasis emerge there. In her father's garden, she helps strike cuttings of cacti for her future yard. On the soundtrack, we hear the elated messages that she leaves on the answering machines of people back at home in the Netherlands. During the course of the film, however, her messages lose their enthusiasm: political developments are getting in the way of her dream.
Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi works with video/ film, drawings and painting. Her films find themselves on the border of fiction and documentary and examine different options of story telling (visually and verbally). In her long film The Day I disappeared, 62’, 2011, she refers to her personal story of a crisis of identity as a result of immigration. Her works are stories delved in the ephemeral layers of her memories. Her images of objects and portraits conceal a profusion of symbolic associations. Rather than representing a plain narrative, Her works represent visual poetry.
Born in 1968 in Iran, lives in Amsterdam, Holland Physics Tehran Azad University, 1989
Astronomy Physics University of Groningen Netherlands, 1992
Visual Art, Painting/drawing Minerva Art Academy Gronigen Netherlands, 1995
Master of Fine Arts, Video, Film Post Graduate Sandberg institute Amsterdam, 2002